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This city was the capital of a region known unofficially as Cisleithania (“siss-lye-THAN-yuh”). At the start of the 20th (-5[1])century, (-5[1])this (10[1])city was heavily (10[1]-5[1])modernized under a populist and anti-Semitic mayor (10[2])known (10[2])as “handsome (10[3])Karl.” (10[2]-5[1])The Compromise (10[1])of 1867, (10[1])also known as Ausgleich (10[2]-5[1])(“AUZ-glyck”), designated this city (10[1])as the western capital (10[1]-5[1])of a reformed state. (10[4])During (10[1])the (-5[1])20th century, (10[1]-5[1])this city’s coffee (10[1])houses (10[4])patronized (10[8]-5[1])intellectuals (10[10]-5[2])like Leon (10[5])Trotsky (10[3])and (10[2])Josip (10[3]-5[1])Broz (10[3])Tito. (10[8]-5[2])This (10[2])city’s (10[1])Schönbrunn (-5[1])Palace was the birthplace (10[3])of (10[1])Emperor (10[1])Franz Joseph (10[2])I (10[3])and the main summer residence of the Habsburgs. (10[2])For (10[1])10 points, (10[1])what major city (10[1])of the Austro-Hungarian Empire remains the capital of modern-day (10[1]-5[1])Austria? (10[1])■END■ (10[12]0[1])

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